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LinkedIn Learning Summary In the LinkedIn Interview, Darin McGowan explains different aspects of his life and career as a storyboard artist. He describes how he grew from an art school graduate to an insurance desk worker to a full storyboard artist and what he learned along the way. Much of his experiences are those common Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations In his LinkedIn course, Ben Bishop presents different composition techniques that graphic novel illustrators use to storyboard out comic panels. These techniques are common in international graphic novels, but their medium and styles may vary slightly depending on the medium.  South Korean webcomics site WEBTOON forgoes the traditional format of Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary Throughout her course, Amy Balliet emphasizes a crucial piece of context that is needed to deliver messages through data visualization: the target audience. That audience may have varying levels of data visualization literacy. An international group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University presented an article on the investigation projects inside the country Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary LinkedIn instructor Jason Fox first looks at the designer’s lifestyle as a whole and begin determining the goals of their portfolio from there.  An online portfolio is supposed to change as the designer’s life changes. If the designer moves to live somewhere else they must understand how the new place is different Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary Cara St. Hilaire lays out a guide for aspiring designers to follow in order to start learning and practicing design skills. In her course, she goes over general information about the graphic design process, and then links to other LinkedIn courses that provide deeper understanding of that topic.  During the course, St. Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary In the Introduction to Web Design and Development, Jen Kramer introduces the programming languages needed to build a website. HTML provides the structure, CSS improves the look, and JavaScript provides the animation and additional dressing. It seems doubtful that these four languages are the only ones available for creating websites, especially international Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary WordPress is a flexible program that allows for lots of customization depending on what conveniences the author is willing to trade for them. One of the features that stood out as particularly useful in a global sense is the ability to change the language of the website’s Admin panels. This feature is Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary John McWade’s LinkedIn course focuses on different compositional and cropping techniques for photographs. Strategies like focusing on people’s faces and finding descriptive slices help the designer fit the photograph in the space they need and home in on the important information of the photo. As we have learned from past modules, the Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary As designers we must be attentive to the needs of our client. Craig Smallish’s LinkedIn course emphasizes the importance of visiting the client’s physical place of work if possible. This is intended to help us better understand the culture of the client’s workspace as well as getting first impressions of what the Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations While much of Mary Jane Begin’s LinkedIn Learning Course only had to do with Western techniques of color design and application, the history that Begin goes over early in the course shows that our modern art mediums have been influenced by techniques carried over from different ancient cultures.  Early Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary John McWade’s videos on setting perfect text convey very specific advice. While Sean Adams and Ina Saltz both had a looser artistic direction to their courses that could be applied to non-western publications, McWade’s advice is more interesting when applied with the goal of standardization rather than individual or cultural expression. A Read more

Linkedin Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations In the course Graphic Design Foundations: Typography, the instructor Ina Saltz explained the basic principles of typography in graphic design. These basic principles apply to written languages other than English around the world. Her work is focused on western publications, but she does make connections to global influences in Read more

LinkedIn Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations Sean Adams’s course on graphic design basics emphasizes simplicity and boldness. For as long as we can keep the viewer interested, Adams says, they will digest our message. Adams prefers minimalistic designs with lots of negative space, simple shapes, and bright colors all loosely based on a grid template. Read more